HTML & CSS · Senior · Question 72 of 75

Why use `dir="auto"` on user-generated content such as comments?

✓Correct answer: The browser detects the text direction from the content, so Arabic or Hebrew comments render RTL on an LTR page
2It auto-translates the content
3It reverses the order of all elements

Explanation

Mixed-direction text without it shows punctuation and numbers in the wrong places. <bdi> isolates short inline snippets like usernames.

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